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Le Fri, 04 Feb 2011 11:18:12 +0100, Georg Bauhaus  =

<rm-host.bauhaus@maps.futureapps.de> a =C3=A9crit:
> "Syntactic issues are very important for the marketing of a
> language and it would be quite regrettable to have postponed their
> consideration and find out that it is too late to address them.  The
> esthetic appeal can predispose people favorably and do a lot for its
> acceptance.  Those who underestimate it often speak of "syntactic
> sugaring" as if it were something unimportant, but many semantically
> valid languages have failed for lack of charm, for lack of this kind
> of appeal that rallies supporters without their being able to explain
> why they like it."

May reply later about the overall; for the time, just this:

    =E2=80=9C A good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at=
 times
      makes it almost seem like a live teacher. =E2=80=9D

     [Bertrand Russell The World of Mathematics (1956)].

Source: http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/minilanguageschapter.html

While these page are not strictly applicable here (mini-language for  =

one-lined program, not big languages for large systems), just that as I =
 =

know your interest in languages study, I just though you may be interest=
ed  =

in these pages.

-- =

Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=E2=80=99es=
t pas pour  =

les chiens.

=E2=80=9CI am fluent in ASCII=E2=80=9D [Warren 2010]